Paul Roth, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Kyle Robertson, Assistant Director of the Center for Public Philosophy Travis Raymond, Doctoral Student in Philosophy Paul Koch, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Dean of Natural Sciencesīurney Le Boeuf, Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Henry Highton, Doctoral Student in Literature Sean Hunter, Doctoral Student in Philosophy Jennifer Gonzalez, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture James Estes, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Member Jonnathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Public Janette Dinishak, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities Demos, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture and Director of the Center for UC Santa Cruz Faculty and Student Participantsĭaniel Guevara, Chair and Associate Professor of PhilosophyĬlaudio Campagna, Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Ĭonservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society We need to create a constituency that will increase the scope and influence of our efforts. We want UCSC to become the center for the discussion of how language affects nature conservation thinking. It is our vision to establish a world-renowned version of our project at UCSC. According to Campagna and Guevara, if we are to attain an authentically ethical relationship to nature, we must carefully consider what Wittgenstein says about philosophy in general: that it is a “battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.” Conservation scientists, activists, philosophers and academics from a wide variety of disciplines, literary figures, students, and policy makers must work together to push through the current limits of our language and to articulate what Aldo Leopold called “values as yet uncaptured by language.” It is the language of economics applied to nature, which is a language incapable of comprehending the value of life, except for its value as an instrument to human development. The initiative is motivated by the suspicion of program directors, Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara, that the discourse that has dominated world-class conservation for the last three decades has undermined well-meaning efforts to promote biodiversity, because it operates primarily with the politically expedient language of sustainable development. The Language of Conservation Project is a UC Santa Cruz, interdisciplinary initiative that seeks a radical change in how we talk and think about the value of life in all its diverse, natural forms.
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